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Cloud Computing in Agriculture

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The cloud computing environment is an offshoot of the traditional common computing environment with a mission. Cloud computing is driven by factors such as aging of the current IT infrastructure and changes in IT landscape. Refreshing the infrastructure is restricted due to limited capital investments. Virtualisation and cloud computing have transformed how the IT services are delivered at a lower cost by migrating the services to cloud computing. IT-enabled agricultural farming, such as precision farming, is information intensive, which can impact the rural economy. Therefore, the future growth of agriculture depends how the new technologies such as cloud computing are adopted with a focus on farmer needs. The use of appropriate technologies should help a farmer in terms of accessibility and affordability. Cloud computing in agriculture provides an enabling environment for innovation and services with a flexible regulatory environment.

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    L. N. Chavali

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Genetics, Osmania University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Kavi Kishor P.B.

  2. Department of Biotechnology, Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, Jharkhand, India

    Rajib Bandopadhyay

  3. Bioclues Organization, IKP Knowledge Park, Picket, Secunderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Prashanth Suravajhala

Appendices

Annexure I

1.1 Definitions and Abbreviations

ACL:

Access control list

AGMARKNET:

Agricultural Marketing Information System Network

AgRIS:

Agricultural Resources Information System

AGRIS:

International System for Agricultural Science and Technology

AJAX:

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML

API:

Application programming interface

ASP:

Application service provider

CMS:

Content management system

CRM:

Customer relationship management

DB:

Database

DRS:

Distributed Resource Scheduler

EMS:

Enterprise management software

G2B:

Government to Business

G2C:

Government to Consumer

G2G:

Government to Government

GDP:

Gross domestic product

GIS:

Geographic information system

GPS:

Global positioning system

HA:

High availability

HTTPS:

Secure Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

IaaS:

Infrastructure as a service

ICAR:

Indian Council of Agricultural Research

ICT:

Information and Communications Technology

IT:

Information technology

LDAP:

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

MAC:

Media access control

MID:

Mobile internet device

MSP:

Minimum support price

NGO:

Non-governmental organisation

NIST:

Nation Institute of Standards and Technology

OEM:

Original equipment manufacturer

OLAP:

Online analytical processing

PaaS:

Platform as a service

PDA:

Personal data assistants

QoS:

Quality of service

SaaS:

Software as a service

SI:

System integrator

SLA:

Service-level agreement

SMS:

Short message service

SMTP:

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

SOA:

Service-oriented architecture

SRM:

Site Recovery Manager

SSL:

Secured sockets layer

VM:

Virtual machine

XML:

Extensible Markup Language

Annexure II

2.1 List of Agricultural Websites

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Chavali, L.N. (2014). Cloud Computing in Agriculture. In: P.B., K., Bandopadhyay, R., Suravajhala, P. (eds) Agricultural Bioinformatics. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1880-7_12

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